Strategy & Performance Manager
Payjoy
Posted: March 20, 2026
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Quick Summary
The Strategy & Performance Manager is responsible for executing key local and global initiatives, ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into concrete actions through cross-functional coordination and performance tracking. This role generates valuable insights to support decision-making, enabling leadership to align the business based on data.
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Job Description
The Strategy & Performance Manager is responsible for executing key local and global initiatives, ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into concrete actions through cross-functional coordination and performance tracking. This role generates valuable insights to support decision-making, enabling leadership to align the business based on data. It plays a key role in scaling operations effectively while staying focused on impact and results.
Key Responsibilities:
• Contribute to the design and execution of strategic initiatives, ensuring clear alignment with business goals and measurable progress over time.
• Conduct business analysis to support business case development and country-level prioritization.
• Conduct strategic research and competitive benchmarking to inform decision-making and uncover growth opportunities.
• Monitor and report on key KPIs, highlighting performance trends, execution gaps, and actionable insights to guide leadership decisions.
• Design and maintain dashboards and reports to support deeper analysis, standardize reporting processes, and ensure data accuracy.
• Track strategic goals and project milestones, proactively flagging misalignments, delays, or execution risks.
• Collaborate across Sales, Growth, Operations, and other teams to align execution, timelines and follow through on strategic priorities.
• Translate data and strategic objectives into actionable operational plans, while documenting recurring processes that enable consistent performance tracking.
• Assist in the preparation of materials for internal business reviews, planning cycles, and leadership updates.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance operational efficiency and scalability.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Quantitative Sciences, Economy, Engineering, Business or similar.
• 3+ years of experience in strategy and operations, management consulting from top-tiers firms preferred.
• Strong analytical and data driven; proficiency in Excel, SQL and PowerPoint is required. Familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.
• Communication skills for effective collaboration.
• Self-driven and results-driven, willing to work in a dynamic, high-change environment.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing complex projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and drive alignment across teams.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building from scratch.
Benefits:
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100% Company-funded health insurance for employee and immediate family
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Company-funded employee life and disability insurance
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Paid vacation days, unlimited sick leave
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$2,000 USD annual Co-working Travel perk
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$2,000 USD annual Professional Development perk
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Phone finance, headphone benefit, home office equipment allowance and wellness perks
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Catered lunches